Excerpt from Manures, Their Composition, Preparation, and Action Upon Soils: With the Quantities to Be Applied; Being a Field of Companion for the Farmer; From the French of Standard Authorities The purpose of the present work, which is taken, almost entirely, from papers, (by and Mallet, ) in the Dictionnaire des Arts et Manufac tures, is to present to the Agricultural public, in a familiar and intelligible manner, the methods by which to restore and preserve the fertility of Soils. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.